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Cucumber Potted Shrimp

Cucumber potted shrimp. Serve as a delicious appetizer for your dinner party or as a simple nibble as your guests arrive. Shrimp, garlic and chilli all served in fresh cucumber. Yum! | theyumyumclub.com

Course Appetizer, Canapes, Snack
Cuisine English
Keyword Chilli, Garlic, potteds shrimp, Prawns
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Resting time 1 hour
Total Time 30 minutes
Servings 5 servings

Ingredients

  • 1 cucumber
  • 1 large clove of garlic
  • 1 medium sized chilli pepper
  • 100 grams butter
  • 200 grams small shrimp
  • 1 cup rocket
  • 1 tsp paprika
  • Seasoning

Instructions

  1. First, gather all of the ingredients together.

    Cucumber potted shrimp. Serve as a delicious appetizer for your dinner party or as a simple nibble as your guests arrive. Shrimp, garlic and chilli all served in fresh cucumber. Yum! | theyumyumclub.com
  2. Next, prepare the ingredients by roughly chopping the shrimp and finely chopping the rocket, garlic and chilli. You can also peel off strips of the cucumber skin to be decorative.

    Cucumber potted shrimp. Serve as a delicious appetizer for your dinner party or as a simple nibble as your guests arrive. Shrimp, garlic and chilli all served in fresh cucumber. Yum! | theyumyumclub.com
  3. Next, cut the cucumber into the sizes you require for the pots and slice one end off as a base. Next, remove the seeds from the centre of the cucumber by pressing through with your finger. 

    Cucumber potted shrimp. Serve as a delicious appetizer for your dinner party or as a simple nibble as your guests arrive. Shrimp, garlic and chilli all served in fresh cucumber. Yum! | theyumyumclub.com
  4. Now, clarify the butter by firstly melting in a pan and leaving aside for 5 minutes.

    Cucumber potted shrimp. Serve as a delicious appetizer for your dinner party or as a simple nibble as your guests arrive. Shrimp, garlic and chilli all served in fresh cucumber. Yum! | theyumyumclub.com
  5. Gently pour off the butter oil leaving the sediment at the bottom of the pan.

    Cucumber potted shrimp. Serve as a delicious appetizer for your dinner party or as a simple nibble as your guests arrive. Shrimp, garlic and chilli all served in fresh cucumber. Yum! | theyumyumclub.com
  6. Now, add the shrimp to the clarified butter and heat through on low heat.

    Cucumber potted shrimp. Serve as a delicious appetizer for your dinner party or as a simple nibble as your guests arrive. Shrimp, garlic and chilli all served in fresh cucumber. Yum! | theyumyumclub.com
  7. Add the chilli and garlic.

    Cucumber potted shrimp. Serve as a delicious appetizer for your dinner party or as a simple nibble as your guests arrive. Shrimp, garlic and chilli all served in fresh cucumber. Yum! | theyumyumclub.com
  8. Once heated through strain off the shrimp, chilli and garlic so that you have two separate bowls of ingredients.

    Cucumber potted shrimp. Serve as a delicious appetizer for your dinner party or as a simple nibble as your guests arrive. Shrimp, garlic and chilli all served in fresh cucumber. Yum! | theyumyumclub.com
  9. Add the chopped rocket to the shrimp.

    Cucumber potted shrimp. Serve as a delicious appetizer for your dinner party or as a simple nibble as your guests arrive. Shrimp, garlic and chilli all served in fresh cucumber. Yum! | theyumyumclub.com
  10. Now, stuff the cucumber with the shrimp mixture and press down.

    Cucumber potted shrimp. Serve as a delicious appetizer for your dinner party or as a simple nibble as your guests arrive. Shrimp, garlic and chilli all served in fresh cucumber. Yum! | theyumyumclub.com
  11. Drizzle the clarified butter over the shrimp and leave to set in the fridge for at least 1 hour.

    Cucumber potted shrimp. Serve as a delicious appetizer for your dinner party or as a simple nibble as your guests arrive. Shrimp, garlic and chilli all served in fresh cucumber. Yum! | theyumyumclub.com
  12. Once set the cucumber potted shrimp are ready to serve. Very simple and very tasty. Yum!

    Cucumber potted shrimp. Serve as a delicious appetizer for your dinner party or as a simple nibble as your guests arrive. Shrimp, garlic and chilli all served in fresh cucumber. Yum! | theyumyumclub.com